Power Electronics

This lecture note examines the application of electronics to energy conversion and control. Topics covered include: modeling, analysis, and control techniques; design of power circuits including inverters, rectifiers, and DC-DC converters; analysis and design of magnetic components and filters; and characteristics of power semiconductor devices.

This note covers the following topics: Power Semiconductor Devices, AC to DC Converters, DC to DC Converters, AC to AC Voltage Converters and DC to AC Converters.

This note describes the following topics: Electrical Energy Conversion by Converters, The lost History of the Transistor, Future Electronic Power Distribution Systems, Basic Strategies in Power Electronics, Power Devices, Mechanical Design and Cooling Techniques, DC-DC - Converters, Line-Commutated Topologies, Voltage Source Inverters, Active Compensation Filter, Interactions between Electrical Machine and Power Electronics, Multilevel Inverters, Matrix Inverters, Current Source Inverters, Z-Source Inverters, Resonance Converters, Cellurar IGCT Circuit and MTPA-Control.

This note explains the following topics: Modeling and Simulation, HVDC Transmission, AC Transmission Applications, Reactive Compensation for Power Flow Control, Shunt Compensation, Control and Harmonic Interactions, Distribution Applications, Power and Voltage Quality, Static Series Compensators for Voltage Sag Correction, Fault Current Limiters, Distributed Generation and Storage.

This note covers an introductory overview of power electronic devices, Uncontrolled device power diode, Half controlled device thyristor, Typical fully controlled devices and other new power electronic devices.

This note explains the following topics: Power semiconductor devices and commutation circuits, Single phase and three phase controlled rectifiers, AC voltage controllers and Cycloconverters, DC � DC converters and Inverters.

This note covers the following topics: Thyristors, Static V-I Characteristics of SCR, TRIAC, GTO and IGBT, Turn-On and Turn-OFF Mechanism of SCR, Bipolar Transistors, Triggering and basics of driver circuits, 1-Phase Half and Full Wave Controlled Rectifier with various kinds of loads, Midpoint and Bridge type converters, Inverter Mode of Operation, DC-DC Converters, AC-AC Converters, Single phase AC Voltage regulators, Single-phase Half and Full bridge Inverter, Complementary Commutated Inverters.